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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Josquius on September 09, 2015, 02:59:54 AM

Poll
Question: what is your primary personal phone?
Option 1: iPhone votes: 12
Option 2: Android votes: 17
Option 3: Windows phone votes: 4
Option 4: BlackBerry votes: 0
Option 5: some other type of smart phone votes: 0
Option 6: feature phone votes: 0
Option 7: basic mobile votes: 2
Option 8: landline votes: 2
Option 9: telegraph votes: 0
Option 10: pidgeon votes: 0
Option 11: I don't need no fancy communimication votes: 2
Title: phones
Post by: Josquius on September 09, 2015, 02:59:54 AM
Primary and  personal added due to likelihood of people having  many. If you just have a work assigned  phone then that's fine too
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 09, 2015, 03:12:42 AM
Not sure, think it might be an android clone.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Martinus on September 09, 2015, 03:16:21 AM
iPhone is my primary. I also have a work-issued Blackberry but use it mainly for reading work emails.
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Post by: Jaron on September 09, 2015, 03:16:57 AM
I have an iPhone 6 plus.
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Post by: Syt on September 09, 2015, 03:18:07 AM
I'm Titus Androidicus
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on September 09, 2015, 03:52:43 AM
I prefer to use email.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Martinus on September 09, 2015, 03:57:38 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on September 09, 2015, 03:52:43 AM
I prefer to use email.

Me too - I think in 9 cases out of 10 calling someone in this day and age of emails and text messages, is just plain rude. But I use my iPhone as a portable computer mainly.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Brazen on September 09, 2015, 04:29:56 AM
Two Androids, one for work, one for home. And a pair of Android tablets too.
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Post by: Archy on September 09, 2015, 05:36:25 AM
Our Family Unit has 2 Android Phones and one Android Tablet
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Post by: Gups on September 09, 2015, 05:39:18 AM
Android - Nexus 4 plus work blackberry.
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Post by: Grey Fox on September 09, 2015, 09:10:33 AM
I bow to the many faces god that is Google.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Berkut on September 09, 2015, 12:19:34 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 09, 2015, 03:57:38 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on September 09, 2015, 03:52:43 AM
I prefer to use email.

Me too - I think in 9 cases out of 10 calling someone in this day and age of emails and text messages, is just plain rude.

The cultural shift that has calling someone on the phone as being "rude" or not to be desired in some fashion is simply fucking bizarre to me.

I know it exists - my kids would sooner carve out their eyes than actually call someone on the phone.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Josquius on September 09, 2015, 12:23:13 PM
I agree with the talking on the phone hate.
My ideal plan would be one where I do have a number for those times where I have to give it....but otherwise just pure data.

My Windows  phone recently pretty much died and it is doubtful I will be able to hack my iPhone 5 so I'm currently pondering a new  phone.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: MadBurgerMaker on September 09, 2015, 12:36:33 PM
I was switching back and forth between an Android (LG G3) and a Windows phone (Blu LTE something or other), but I "need" certain apps the G3 has that the Blu doesn't.  I'll go back and check out Win 10 Mobile when that comes out though. 
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Josquius on September 09, 2015, 01:09:08 PM
Windows phone is nice. But app makers just aren't trying with it. The windows phone version of facebook for instance is miles behind the iphone
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 09, 2015, 01:54:17 PM
I got a Windows phone because it was the cheapest touchscreen in the store.

I kinda get now how calling can be a pain in the ass.  Too many steps to check voice mail.  But reading a text is just as simple as reading an email.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: DontSayBanana on September 09, 2015, 02:45:57 PM
iPhone 6 Plus
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Post by: Pedrito on September 09, 2015, 03:09:53 PM
HTC One.

Google is my master.

L.
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Post by: 11B4V on September 09, 2015, 05:41:46 PM
Fire phone.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2015, 06:06:02 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 09, 2015, 05:41:46 PM
Fire phone.

You disappoint me, I was expecting:

[11B4V]

Two cans, ball of string.

[/11B4V]


:P
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 09, 2015, 06:08:29 PM
Is that what you use?
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Post by: Razgovory on September 09, 2015, 06:49:01 PM
I have found disposable ones goof for my purposes.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Tonitrus on September 09, 2015, 08:04:13 PM
Quote from: Berkut on September 09, 2015, 12:19:34 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 09, 2015, 03:57:38 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on September 09, 2015, 03:52:43 AM
I prefer to use email.

Me too - I think in 9 cases out of 10 calling someone in this day and age of emails and text messages, is just plain rude.

The cultural shift that has calling someone on the phone as being "rude" or not to be desired in some fashion is simply fucking bizarre to me.

I know it exists - my kids would sooner carve out their eyes than actually call someone on the phone.

It's bizarre to me too, and I often still think that texting over calling is less, well, "intimate", especially when trying to communicate with friends.  But I see the other side too...who are you to disturb me at YOUR convenience with a phone call, when you can text me instead, and allow me to respond(or better, actually call in response) at mine?  Kinda goes to the odd logic we had developed in the past that, just because somebody makes your phone ring, they take some kind of priority over the person who is there talking to you...in person.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: LaCroix on September 09, 2015, 08:08:52 PM
for me, depends on the relationship. good friend? call, #yolo. professional friend/acquaintance? text asking if they're available to talk
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Phillip V on September 09, 2015, 08:20:30 PM
LG G3 (Android).  I will keep it as my primary phone for at least two or three years due to my satisfaction.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net%2F%2Fart%2Fmobile_phones%2FLG%2FLG%2520G3%2FHands%2520on%25202%2FLG_G3_Review%2520%2811%29-623-80.JPG&hash=813cd467a028ff44a983a95ba4a76f440d321895)
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 09, 2015, 08:33:04 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 09, 2015, 08:08:52 PM
professional friend

:hmm:
Title: Re: phones
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2015, 08:33:08 PM
Most people will find it Very hard to contact me by phone.   :cool:
Title: Re: phones
Post by: Tonitrus on September 09, 2015, 09:21:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 09, 2015, 08:33:04 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 09, 2015, 08:08:52 PM
professional friend

:hmm:

I'm guessing he means "work friends".  People at work whom you like, and who like you, but for reasons, never really hang outside of work or work functions.  I've had plenty of those.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: 11B4V on September 09, 2015, 09:23:56 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 09, 2015, 06:06:02 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 09, 2015, 05:41:46 PM
Fire phone.

You disappoint me, I was expecting:

[11B4V]

Two cans, ball of string.

Of course not, we're not savages here.

[/11B4V]


:P
Title: Re: phones
Post by: dps on September 10, 2015, 11:45:53 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 09, 2015, 08:08:52 PM
for me, depends on the relationship. good friend? call, #yolo. professional friend/acquaintance? text asking if they're available to talk

For me, it's more about the content of the message than anything else.  Want to remind me that we've planned to get together to watch the game on TV tonight?  Text me, and I can just text back an acknowledgment/confirmation.  Want to set up plans for a future get-together?  Call me, so we can actually talk and discuss what we want to do, when, where, etc.
Title: Re: phones
Post by: KRonn on September 10, 2015, 12:35:33 PM
Landline is my primary. It's cheap and part of my cable package. I also have a cell phone which I rarely use, and just keep renewing a  fifteen or more dollar fee to keep minutes on it for a couple months or so. But I have been contemplating one of them fancy smancy smarty pants phones.   :)